JAMES HADLEY CHASE

There's A Hippie On The Highway

     Harry Mitchell, ex-paratroop sergeant,  thought that he had faced a tough life in the jungles, amongst the snipers at Vietnam. Wanting a change from it all, he lands a job as a lifeguard and swimming instructor in a Paradise City beach restaurant, so he can be among the sun, sand and beautiful people. But the restaurant owner is a huge Mexican with a criminal background; he also has an explosively nymphomaniac daughter, Nina, who is also a double-crosser. Harry is soon drawn into a lethal set-up, where dumped corpses, smuggling operations, over-ambitious cops and hired killers combine to make his life very unhealthy. It was just as well for Harry Mitchell that he had learned to look after himself in the killing fields of Vietnam....